Girls Can Code: UNESCO’s Information for All Programme launches a new project in Ghana

news_220118_ghana.jpg © UNESCO 22 January 2018The First Lady of Ghana Ms Rebecca Akufo-Addo launched last week in Accra a UNESCO/IFAP project on empowering women and girls through ICT, under which about 300 junior high school students will be trained in the development of codes and applications. Entitled “Girls Can Code”, the project aims at training teenagers between the ages of 11 and 14 from ten schools across the ten regions of the country. It has been designed under UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP) and is intended to bring equity and narrow the gap between men and women in the…

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